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Africa - Richard Attenborough / BBC

  • 06-01-2013 6:59pm
    #1
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭


    Just saw the last 20 minutes of this a while ago. Some of the most fascinating TV I've seen in a long time (especially the part where two giraffes are beating the sh1te out of each other - incredible TV and the last scene is highly recommended - I've never seen anything like it before).

    Think it is on Sundays/Wednesday.


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  • #2
    Shekira
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭Shekira


    Yeah, seen that one alright. :) Actually seen a lot of Attenborough programs over the Christmas as I was sick. Another fantastic clip I saw was of killer whales swimming under an ice flow, making waves to knock a seal off into the water for dinner....amazing! :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPge_0lea3o

    This is the exact clip but no Attenborough??!! :(

    (It was David not Richard! :)


  • #3
    roanoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭roanoke


    Just starting to get into Attenborough's stuff now myself. I feel like I have treasure trove of about 60 years to catch up on!

    I am however watching Africa week to week presently. It's one of the few must-see things I have on my tv schedule atm.


  • #4
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Shekira wrote: »

    (It was David not Richard! :)

    Doh....mods can edit!;)


  • #5
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Fizman wrote: »
    Doh....mods can edit!;)

    A mod on another thread suggested that an OP can change their own thread title.

    "I think if you click "edit" and then click the "advanced" button, you can change the title."


  • #6
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    brian_t wrote: »
    A mod on another thread suggested that an OP can change their own thread title.

    "I think if you click "edit" and then click the "advanced" button, you can change the title."

    Learn something new every day!


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  • #7
    roanoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭roanoke


    Shoebills. Now there's one species I wouldn't mind seeing become extinct.


  • #8
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    Just STUNNING ....


  • #9
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Last episode next Wednesday.

    Fantastic series. Going to rewatch it all with the wife next weekend :)


  • #10
    clappyhappy
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    As usual with any David Attenborough series, they are very well produced and stunning for the viewer. The 2 year long recording of the sand dunes was amazing. My heart sank when I saw the damage to the camera.

    Excellent work by all the camera people, editors etc, he really has some of the best in the world working with him.


  • #11
    LowOdour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭LowOdour


    Can’t say I watch much nature-based programs, but the wife had heard good things about the first episode so have watched the last three. Has to be some of the most enjoyable TV I've watched in a long time...as was mentioned, so of the camera work and storytelling was marvelous. Definitely best viewed in HD too, superb colours on show.


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  • #12
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    The last episode was re-edited to remove so-called sensitive climate change comments from David.

    The line removed was "Some parts of the continent have become 3.5 Celsius hotter in the past 20 years."

    BBC once again bending over backwards, removing ONE sentence that doesn't even remotely point any blame of Climate Change on anything. What David said was simply a fact. Nothing more.

    BBC should really grow a pair.


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